Yeah because people thought that gambit, liquid and fnatic should have easily taken care of g2, hence the rekindled hype for g2

meh, made it to masters, that's g2 already punching above its weight. This forum wouldn't shut the fuck up about g2 not making to masters, but here we are

FNC were successful in group stage because they had 2 months to come up with new stuff during the player break. But after revealing most of their hand in the group stage, they got easily figured out in muh "seeding" matches. Why would a team relying on "tactics" so much would not want to get #1 seed and skip R1 robin round stage in Reykjavik.

Fnatic are scary after extended player breaks because that's when they come up with new stuff, once they play a few games their stuff gets quickly figured out by other teams. Rinse and repeat every 4 months.

Yeah but his jett during heretics felt meh and underwhelming

Maybe he is trying to buy a house in California, where property prices are in the millions if you want something decent

damn, didn't expect nukkye to have a respectable jett

characters like nivera deserved it

This. G2 had a whole day off to prepare for today's match, while gambit had less than 12 hours for this. Riot is still retarded at organising things

I'm the most gringo user on this forum, don't @ me

If your cuisine doesn't put sour cream on fried potatoes, then we can't talk, sorry

Finally not a lucky/easy bracket for G2 xaxaxaxaxa

Expected, you snooze you lose in this game.

No, it shouldn't make you feel more right at all. Zeek essentially was doing what you keep propagating through your comments. Zeek kept trying to "deal with his psychological problems" since new year, because he is a "professional", but something happened on top of what he was dealing with already until one day it became too much. If mental health issues were not looked down upon, then he most likely could have taken a break way earlier, rather than now.

Zeek didn't inform the management of his problems until after the match against Fnatic, which was a week ago. Oftentimes one thinks that they can handle problems and push through, until all of a sudden it all becomes too much, that's the shit thing about mental health.

Both are quite competitive in terms of 3rd place, group A even more if Gambit were allowed to play.

LDN had a bigger pressure to win so that they could still stay in competition, for FPX this loss doesn't change much so they didn't have as much of a pressure to secure the win.

What a mess mens ))

Acend are out for sure if they lose against BBL. If Acend wins against BBL, then Fnatic needs to win against Guild also for them to be out(that's when the round differential tiebreaker between G2 and Acend kicks ins) and for G2 to advance.

Would be curious to see, but I'm pretty sure there would emerge some sort of chemistry issue which would lead to this not working out at all

yes

You argument is correct, but the aim of these sanctions/actions from anti Russia coalition is to get regular Russians out on the streets to protest against Putin's kleptocracy which would naturally lead to regime's fall. Sure, Russian security services can arrest 2000 people in ~10k protest(being generous here), but they can't arrest 20k people if Russians are out to protest in Moscow by the 100 thousands.

This is the only possible and realistic way to avoid nuclear war, it is up to Russian people to depose of Putin's kleptocracy. The sooner Russians start turning up in protests against Kremlin by the 100 thousands, the sooner this fucked up war between brothers can be finished.

8am/9am - 4pm/5pm Monday to Friday is the standard.

Did another conflict between nukkye & keloqz happen?

Good news, because he was responsible for bringing in meddo, pipson and hoody after kicking koldamenta and benching mixwell at the last minute, i.e. their actions between champions and start of VCT masters seemed like a huge waste of time. I still hope that the current G2 iteration can work out, but I think under tougher competition they will again appear average at best.

Yeah he is a proud incel

Incredibly good looking
Not very fat
Can lift weights
Epic lifter
Loathe women immensely

nice

Quadro RTX 5000, Xeon E-2286M, 32GB RAM
Google Pixel 6 Pro

I thought only academics on twitter were doing this wordle shit, now vlr and zoomers too? wtf, gonna continue staying ignorant

+/- 18cm

How are the Chinese teenagers going to evade the three hours a week limit? Are Chinese pros essentially going to be 18+ universally?

covid is becoming a nothingburger anyway, at least in europe

uuu, EU ranked sexism moment that has gone somewhat viral, maybe Riot EU will finally start reacting to voice chat reports for once.

Tomorrow some TSM fan is gonna decide to call SWAT on shahzam

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

friendship ended with skrossi

Looks like Riot has completely assumed Chinese moral values, which explains decisions like this KEKW

"nah man, the costs of increasing number of participants from 16 to 24 is exponential, we can't afford that here at Riot Games Esports division" - some Riot esports mid level executive, probably.

Riot must have hired some managers from DICE Stockholm, similar levels of incompetence tbh

Something tells me that even if covid was a non factor, those people would religiously stick to 16 participants tbh :D

Why didn't Riot just simply increase the number of participating teams from 16 to 24 or something like that is beyond me. It's not like money is the problem for them...

why such long tech pause

He is not making it up, nukkye stated similar figures on his stream as well when he got transferred to G2.

Because nukkye has enough chest hair to carve out a BatSignal

True, that's a fair way of looking at it, it's just I have a perception that due to the average age of pro esports players, it's very difficult to find such perfect individuals among the upcoming stars. Would be really amazing for G2 & co if keloqz manages to mature in a matter of few months though

Yeah, that's pretty much my only critique of nukkye - he is actively putting himself in a position where he limits the pool of individuals he could realistically work with. in other words he seeks for a perfect environment when perfection under most circumstances would not necessarily be feasible.

American and Bri*ish ones look even more fucked up tbh :D

Yeah, I mean I don't blame keloqz. He is only 18 after all, barely an adult. Needs to live a few more years to realise that Valorant is his career now and how quickly he can be replaced by another 18 year old who is more motivated if he continues to slack.

They're not boring, that's for sure. Already a 6th unique forum thread about them that I see

Serious question though, did the flags have to be changed because of some copyright issue or wut?

https://clips.twitch.tv/WiseOptimisticCaterpillarBatChest-265i_f_Qh6Fk0TnM

keloqz = espiranto situation confirmed

Fuck me, I didn't expect G2 to qualify but here we are lol